Trinidad and To­ba­go’s na­tion­al men’s 3x3 bas­ket­ball team ex­it­ed the FI­BA 3x3 Amer­iCup in El Sal­vador on Sat­ur­day night (Oc­to­ber 31) fol­low­ing back-to-back group-stage de­feats against con­ti­nen­tal pow­er­hous­es Cana­da and Mex­i­co in Pool C.

​En­ter­ing the main draw af­ter a dra­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion round, T&T strug­gled to hold off Cana­da’s in­tense of­fence in their Pool C open­er, sur­ren­der­ing to a 21-8 de­feat with 1:45 re­main­ing on the game clock. Je­lani Mic­ah Val­ley paced the na­tion­al team with four points, sup­port­ed by Tyrese Fields with three and Tyrik Zwade Singh with one, while Ja­son Josi­ah Fri­day was held score­less.

Lat­er, T&T re­turned to the court to face Mex­i­co in their fi­nal group fix­ture. De­spite a spir­it­ed ear­ly de­fen­sive ef­fort, T&T fell 21-9 with 3:24 to play. Val­ley again led T&T’s scor­ing out­put with five points, Singh added three, and Fri­day chipped in one point.

​Cana­da fin­ished atop Pool C with an un­beat­en 2-0 record to ad­vance di­rect­ly to yes­ter­day’s knock­out quar­ter­fi­nals along­side run­ner-up Mex­i­co (1-1). T&T’s 0-2 run in the group stage con­firmed an over­all tour­na­ment place­ment of 12th po­si­tion—mark­ing the sec­ond time the squad has reached the main draw with­out ad­vanc­ing to the knock­out phase, fol­low­ing pre­vi­ous over­all fin­ish­es of 13th (2021), fourth (2022), ninth (2024), and 10th (2025).

​De­spite the group-stage ex­it, T&T’s cam­paign was high­light­ed by re­mark­able re­silience dur­ing Thurs­day’s Qual­i­fy­ing Draw C. Af­ter build­ing a com­fort­able 7-2 lead against Saint Lu­cia in their open­ing qual­i­fi­er, T&T suf­fered a se­vere blow when Fri­day sus­tained a di­rect el­bow to the face, los­ing three teeth un­der the rim. Rushed off the court for emer­gency med­ical care, a short-hand­ed T&T dropped the open­er 17-14.

​The re­main­ing trio of Singh, Fields, and Val­ley re­grouped to over­whelm the Cay­man Is­lands 21-12 be­hind an 11-point per­for­mance from Singh. Fri­day made a re­turn to the court for the fi­nal match against Hon­duras, spark­ing a 21-14 vic­to­ry that forced a three-way tie at 2-1 with Hon­duras and Saint Lu­cia. T&T ul­ti­mate­ly won the sin­gle Main Draw berth by virtue of to­tal points scored, amass­ing 56 to­tal points across qual­i­fi­ca­tion.